Bao Nguyen

Bao Nguyen
17th Mayor of Garden Grove, California
In office December 9, 2014 – December 13, 2016
Preceded by	Bruce Broadwater
Succeeded by	Steven R. Jones
Trustee of Garden Grove Unified School District Board of Education
In office July 19, 2011 – December 2, 2014
Personal details
Born	1980 (age 36–37) Thailand
Nationality	American
Political party	Democratic
Alma mater	Pacifica High School University of California, Irvine Naropa University
Occupation	Community organizer, educator, politician

Bao Nguyen (born 1980) is an American Democratic politician from Orange County, California and a former mayor of Garden Grove, California. He also previously served as a trustee on the Garden Grove Unified School District Board of Education.

Nguyen was born in a United Nations refugee camp in Thailand to parents escaping Vietnam, and arrived in the United States when he was 3 months old. He attended school within the Garden Grove Unified School District. He attended Garden Grove High School, and graduated from Pacifica High School.

Nguyen graduated from UC Irvine with a bachelor's degree in political science. As an undergraduate, he interned for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Rockville, Maryland. Nguyen also earned a master's degree in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies from Naropa University.

Nguyen was appointed to the Garden Grove Unified School District Board of Education in 2011, after a close race in 2010. He was elected as a trustee in 2012, and served a term as vice president. As a board member, he fought against the exclusion of LGBT Vietnamese from the annual Little Saigon Tết Parade. He resigned from the Board of Trustees in 2014 due to becoming mayor.

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